so, this definitely happened, right?
Dead on Main soulmark AU where the first place you and your soulmate touch is bright white.
Danny spends most of his life thinking he doesn't have a soulmate.
Jason Peter Todd-Wayne has a fuckin bite mark.
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Danny is a sort of Disney princess with animals. Not alive ones though, they hate him. The ghost animals of Gotham City absolutely adore him. Harley Quinn watches from her window as a teenager with a glowing raccoon on one shoulder, a tiny scraggly kitten on the other, and a half dozen glowing green rats trailing behind him, just walks past her apartment.
he’d have to have nightmares about that fight sometimes, right?
Danny has found himself as a cat. And there’s good news and bad news about it. The good news is that he’s a magical cat or something similar, seeing as he has two tails and can go Very Big if he wants to. Bad news? He’s pretty sure they’re in a different dimension now.
Cute news, both Ellie and Jordan are itty bitty kittens and utterly adorable, he would murder for them. They’re so tiny! Like, yeah they got physically de-aged before all this so they could properly pass as his kids- along with part of Dan’s parole- but this? He could hold them in his hands if he still had them!
Alright! First things first, find a shelter and avoid the destroyed buildings along with whatever destroyed them in the first place. Then he could figure out if this is an accident or some sort of forced vacation. But shelter first.
Now Jason would like it known that there was no mpreg situation going on. He isn’t even sure where people got that idea in the first place. Sure, he had taken a few Cores from the goons-in-white who had dared to set up in his turf.
And sure maybe the excess energy from the pit (no wonder he’d been so irritable) was what said baby halfas (Okay, so they’re half human? Alright) had used to reform. And maybe the oldest is visibly less than a year old.
But there Was No Mpreg Situation! He is this close to shooting someone! It was annoying (and slightly amusing) when it was just his goons, but now the Bats have seemingly got it in their heads! Dear Gotham it’s a good thing he’s not planning on like, ever revealing who he is because he would never be able to live this rumor down.
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Alright, but what happened on Danny’s end? Why is he in Gotham?
Looking for a way to get rid of all ghosts Jack and Maddie start to officially work for the G.I.W.
While diving into the portal with the Specter Speeder, Maddie, Jack and two G.I.W. agents find the Sarcophagus of forever Sleep (which wasn’t easy at all since they had to sort a lot of traps before reaching the room where they found the sarcophagus).
Thinking that the sarcophagus was a sort of weapon for ghosts (because why else would they put the sarcophagus somewhere so far and hidden) they take it back to the living realm and start to study it to use it to finally completely exterminate all the ghosts in the ghost zone.
The reason why neither Danny or Jazz noted any of this was because Jazz was with his class in a school trip to check out the different colleges they could attend and Danny was in a field trip with his class to Yellowstone.
Unsurprisingly, all goes to hell. The G.I.W. manage to completely open the sarcophagus right when Danny and Jazz come back from their respective trips. Taken by surprise, Danny ends up extremely injured in his second fight against Pariah Dark, this time with a lot of casualties, Jazz, Sam, Tucker and Val die, their liminal souls absorbed by Pariah Dark, and Jack and Maddie in a desperate intent to destroy the monster that came out from the sarcophagus overheat the portal. Danny is weakened and sad and so tired, so he transforms in front of his parents as he faints when they tried to also destroy Phantom, when they see their unconscious son where their sworn enemy used to stand, they completely loose it and as the portal explodes Maddie and Jack are frozen middle shot.
Clockwork stops time micro seconds before the energy blasts hits Danny (who has once again defeated Pariah Dark in combat and this time his anger made him consume PD’s core, this way completely erasing him from the face of every realm, not even the Void could reclaim PD before Danny ended him). And as the home realm of Danny Fenton is completely obliterated by the explosion the Fenton portal creates (all souls in the realm immediately turning into the most primal form of ectoplasm and returning to the Void), Clockworks carry Danny away to safety.
While Danny is in a pseudo comma while his core assimilates PD’s powers, Clockwork has an emergency meeting with the observants where the general consensus is that now Clockwork, Pandora and Frostbite are the young king’s official caretakers.
Pandora and Frostbite insist that Danny still needs to continue his mortal life so he can develop a stable mindset and find closure.
Lady Gotham offers her city as sanctuary for the young king, saying that her knights would be good friends for him.
Clockwork has the last word; he accepts lady Gotham’s proposal and with Ghost Writer and Technus’s help they create a new identity for Danny… and if Clockwork decided to join his ward for bit and have a taste of normal, human life, well, it’s not like they can actually stop him.
When Danny regains consciousness Dani hugs him and cries with him… they cry for a whole week.
He befriends Damian after they both stab each other in the hand with a pen because they both thought that the other was a bully.
Danny is very grateful for Damian who is funny and patient and listens and that is a little bit messed up in the head but that only adds to his charm.
Oh, Danny definitely knows that the Waynes are the Bats but Not his zoo, not his animals. Besides, he is now a retired vigilante.
Danny still does help in whatever way he can though. He is known as fix it Danny in his current neighborhood. Adults take their appliances to him for fixing, children and teens take their toys, skateboards, bicycles and roller-skates to him for fixing. All for the very cheap price of junk food (usually cookies, brownies and cupcakes, one time a bunch of kids gave him a jumbo-sized bag of sour gummy worms for him to fix their go-cart).
Danny doesn’t know that Damian takes pictures of him when he is distracted.
Danny doesn’t have a crush on Damian… he just thinks he is pretty and funny and intelligent and handsome and his eyes are so pretty and his accent is so sexy (he really likes the way Damian says his name, sounds like Danyal instead of Daniel and it’s just so ugh!), and he is so artistic and he has a cow! (as you can see, Danny is clearly in denial)
Clockwork approves.
Danny does use his powers while in Gotham. He uses his invisibility and other powers to sometimes patrol around the neighborhood (Danny: it’s not vigilantism, Clockwork, I’m just a concerned neighbor!).
The ghost king was a cat.
No one, not even Constantine, knew of this fact. Until the day the eldritch ghost of the infinite was summoned by a wayward cult who wished for the destruction of the world.
He was a large cat, actually. About, roughly, bigger than a car with green fur, an eyepatch over one of his eyes, large horns-thought one was broken-, and a flaming green crown floating above his head.
The ghost king laid on his side and the summoning seemingly interrupted him from... grooming? A smaller cat that laid next to the king that, while smaller than the king (or perhaps his father?) was larger than the average dog.
Meanwhile, Pariah Dark is not exactly pleased he was summoned, with obvious intent to destroy/enslave a world. How rude of them. Don't they know he's on, what was it?
Danny: Your redemption arc, dad.
Yes, his redemption arc!
From Chapter 12 of Cat's Eyes by MalaMari